Mysteries
The exercise itself is a front for the struggle of overcoming the obstacles to doing it, that's the real project.
Another week of teaching strange children how to make strange things, and they all have their own unique way of doing them, some through blunt force, some through creativity, and many many more who are just not paying attention. Other stuff I’m working on I still can’t talk about, but I’m done with something pretty big. I hope I will be able to talk about it in the fall!
Enlargement exercise using 1/2” tall models of African wildlife, and a dinosaur.
These are all from the same perspective because they were sitting on the table in front of me, about 1.5’ away from my face, which gave them all a sort of isometric look. I didn’t have a lot of time and was being constantly interrupted by those who found this project boring so I focused on quick, continuous gesture lines to capture the shapes of my subjects.
I have collaborated with a gentleman who I will call The Rage. He left a comic book page he had been working on out after leaving, and it only had one panel filled out. So I added a second panel. The rest unfolded organically.
It became a sort of conversation. I think the appearance of Garfield’s house was too much for him.
We had a tricky one for younger people to wrap their heads around, Character Design and storytelling. We had a very hard time convincing them that the project was in fact to come up with their own character. A little high concept for that age group, I guess.
We started by just warming up with a random character. I just started drawing simple shapes and made this body shape, then started thinking about clothes and how it might be some kind of sailor or some guy marooned in a shipwreck, and then imagining him in what could be like a cool roguelike action game where you get really weird transformation abilities (like spider legs growing out of your back so you can climb up walls or growing tons of fur so you can survive cold temps or your hands and feet flattening into fins so you can swim faster) and try to survive by attacking enemies, taking big risks to get big rewards, but if you die you have to start over from the beginning. And the character wouldn’t have a name, the first thing you’d see is “YOU DON’T REMEMBER ANYTHING. GIVE YOURSELF A NAME.“ And then you type it in…
That was fun, and it all came from drawing some random nothings that became random somethings, and circled closer and closer to a point until the point revealed itself. And that’s how powerful spontaneous creativity can be! I wish I had a project to put this guy in… Into the holding paddock with you…
Using simple shapes and color is a fine way to make art, and so we made a couple of samples for this simple animal themed project.
The characters say “Buhi Buhi“ I’m pretty sure, which is the sound a pig makes in Japan.
Special Friend
Is there anything else to say?